1.   And when the federal inquiry became public last November, Giuliani began a vigorous attack on the federal investigators and advocates for the poor.

2.   Another question the judge has raised is whether the charges arose from a legitimate federal inquiry or whether the government was simply trying to trap him into perjuring himself.

3.   At this stage, people involved in the case said, his investigation appears to be completely independent of the federal inquiry.

4.   Both areas of investigation signal a further expansion of the federal inquiry into the procedures Columbia hospitals used for reporting expenses to the government.

5.   Bratton said Thursday that the Police Department was cooperating with a federal inquiry in the case.

6.   A federal inquiry, pending at the time of the crash, has been examining payments to Brown from a former business colleague.

7.   A lawyer for Chang, Bradley D. Simon, declined to comment, citing the continuing federal inquiry.

8.   A federal inquiry into the loans is under way.

9.   A Commerce Department official said this week that the federal inquiry had come to the same conclusion.

10.   A lawyer for one of the four accused officers contended that the federal inquiry did not have to be as protracted as it has been.